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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 15, 2006, 10:54 PM CDT for Cottle County, King County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 15, 2006, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2006, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cottle County, TX, King County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 278 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 787 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Oct 15, 9:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 9:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 144 PM CDT SUN OCT 15 2006 TXZ021>044-160300- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 144 PM CDT SUN OCT 15 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CONVECTIVE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS LATE THIS MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD FROM NEAR THE NEW MEXICO AND TEXAS STATE LINE LATE LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON. FLOODING AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE AREA TODAY...CAUSING LOCALIZED FLOODING AND PONDING ON ROADS. RAINFALL TOTALS TODAY MAY EXCEED TWO INCHES OVER PARTS OF THE FORECAST AREA WITH A FEW LOCATIONS RECEIVING IN EXCESS OF FOUR INCHES OF RAINFALL. FLASH FLOODING MAY QUICKLY DEVELOP. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. STORM SPOTTERS AND LOCAL OFFICIALS ARE URGED TO CLOSELY MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND BE PREPARED TO ACT WHEN THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING INCREASES OR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. PLEASE PROMPTLY RELAY ANY HAZARDOUS WEATHER REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN LUBBOCK.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 15, 9:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 7:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Cottle, King | 3 hr |
| Oct 15, 7:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Dickens, Garza, Kent | 3 hr |
| Oct 15, 10:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Hall and 5 more | 6 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.